David W. Pollak

Partner

David W. Pollak is a partner in Morgan Lewis’s Securities and Mergers and Acquisitions Practices. Mr. Pollak’s practice focuses on public and private offerings of securities, mergers and acquisitions, and advising clients on matters under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. He has represented private equity firms in a wide variety of transactions.

Mr. Pollak is the Practice Group Leader of the Business and Finance Practice, the second largest practice group in the firm with approximately 320 lawyers around the world. He is also a member of the firm’s seven-partner Compensation Committee and the New York Management Committee. Mr. Pollak was formerly a member of the firm’s Advisory Board.

Mr. Pollak represents clients in a variety of fields, including the financial services, healthcare, sporting goods, biotechnology, information services, investment banking, and printing industries.

Mr. Pollak has served for 10 years as chairman of the Practising Law Institute seminar on “Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company,” presented annually in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

Mr. Pollak is admitted to practice in New York.

Recent representative transactions include:

• Representation of Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its acquisition of Susser Holdings, LLC, a Texas-based convenience store retailer, in a leveraged buyout.
• Representation of Susser Holdings, Inc. in its issuance of $170 million of 10-5/8% Senior Notes.
• Representation of Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its sale of JW Aluminum Holdings to Superior Plus Inc.
• Representation of Pitney Bowes, Inc. in its acquisition of IBIS Consulting, Inc.
• Representation of JPMorgan Chase, as managing underwriter, in the issuance of common stock by Bioenvision.
• Representation of Lazard Freres, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of common stock by HemoSense.
• Representation of W.R. Hambrecht, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of Common Stock by CryoCor.
• Representation of JPMorgan Chase, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of common stock of Paradigm Genetics, Inc.
• Representation of Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its acquisition of Tube City LLC, a leading outsourcing services provider to the steel industry, in a leveraged buyout.
• Representation of Pitney Bowes, Inc. in its acquisition of PSI Group, Inc.
• Representation of Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its acquisition of Edwin Watts Golf, the second largest golf-equipment retailer in the United States, in a leveraged buyout.
• Representation of Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its sale of The Hockey Company to Reebok.
• Representation of Cotelligent Inc., a leading information technology company, in connection with its issuance of common stock.
• Representation of The Hockey Company in its initial public offering of common stock in a cross-border transaction.
• Representation of Pitney Bowes, Inc. in its acquisition of G3 Worldwide.
• Representation of Prudential Financial in its acquisition of the retirement business of Union Bank of California.
• Representation of BMO Capital in a PIPE transaction for securities issued by Aastrom, Inc.